Garment-fastening.



N0. 7l0,435. Patented Oct. 7, I902.

A. B. CU SHMAN. GARMENT FASTENING.

(Application filed Dec. 26, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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ARA B. CUSHMAN, OF AUBURN, MAINE.

GARMENT-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 710,435, dated October '7, 1902.

Application filed December 26. 1901. Serial No. 87,222. (No model.)

ing adapted for general application; and the object of the same is to provide a simple and effective device for separably connecting adjacent parts or members of a garment or parts or members of difierent garments or parts of garments and articles of wearingapparel, and embodying features of construction of a strong and durable nature and positive in retention characteristics to avoid accidental disconnection of the members of the fastening.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the several parts, which will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the two members of the improved fastening embodying the features of the invention and shown separated. Fig. 2 is an edge elevation of the members of the fastening shown connected. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section of the members of the fastening shown connected.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

The numerals 1 and 2 designate the members of the improved fastening, the member 1 consisting of a fiat plate with a reduced extremity 3, havinga head or stud 4 projecting therefrom and provided with a circumferential groove 5. (Shown in Fig. 3.) The member 1 also has the main body thereof provided with suitable apertures 6 for the reception of stitches or other fastening devices to securely apply said member to a part of a garment or article of wearing-apparel or other article with which it is desired to use the improved fastening. It is also obvious that the body of the member 1 can be supplied with other fastening means, as the success of the fastening is not dependent upon any particular mode of securing the parts or members 1 and 2 to a garment.

The member 2 comprises. a body 7, which is in the main resilient and has a reduced extremity S, the said body and its extremity being formed with a rolled edge 9 to provide one side of the member 2 with a cavity. The member 2, as shown, is also provided with apertures 10 for receiving securing devices; but these may be replaced by any other suitable securing means. The reduced extremity 8 is raised, as at 11, to form a seat for the entrance of the grooved head or stud 4 on the reduced extremity of the member 1 and so that the groove in the said head or stud 4 may be engaged and locked by a spring 12, held within the rolled edge portion of the said extremity 8. The spring 12 is of approximately U-shape form and has divergent legs 13, held inseparably in connection with the opposite rolled edge portions of the extremity 8 and, continuing inwardly, forming a reduced neck or entrance 14, leading to a seat 15, which is to engage a groove in the said head or stud 4. The distance between the portions of the spring 12 at the point where the throat or neck 14 is formed is normally less in a transverse direction than the diameter of the head or stud in the plane of the groove 5, and hence when the head or stud is forced through the neck or throat 14 the spring yields sufficiently to permit the stud to enter the seat 15, and thus become locked. The raised portion 11 of the extremity 8 permits the stud or head 4 to ride into the seat 15 and become reliably secured by allowing the head or stud to ride into the extremity such a distance as to bring the groove 5 in the same plane as the portion of the spring 12, forming the seat 15, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, and when the head or stud is so arranged in relation to the spring and extremity S of the member 2 the extremity 3 of the member 1 will be drawn closely against the adjacent edge of the member 2. The distance between the plane of the groove in the head or stud 4 and the free end of the latter is a trifle less or approximately equal to the distance between the plane of the spring 12 and the inner surface of the raised portion 11, so that the said head will be held against loose movement, and cannot work out of place, but is free to be manually moved longitudinally of the member 2, the material of which the member 2 is formed being inclined gradually toward the maximum projection of the raised portion 11, to thereby regularly guide the head or stud 4 into the seat 15.

It is proposed to construct both members of the fastening of suitable sheet metal stamped into the shape, as set forth, the metal of the memberfl being thinner than that of the member 1 to impart to the said member 2 a certain amount of resiliency to render the lock of the head or stud 4 effective when assembled in relation to the spring 12. It is also proposed to suitably ornament or plate the two members of the fastening and also to vary their proportions and dimensions, so that they may be applied to large or small articles or parts of articles of wearing-apparel or other devices of different sizes.

The fastening device is capable of general use, and it is proposedto apply the same to all articles to which it may be adapted. The simplicity of the members of the fastening will reduce the cost of manufacture of the same, and the particular form of the body portion of each member shown is not essential and may be varied at will without departing from the principle of the invention.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed as new is- A garment-fastening comprising two members, one of which has a grooved stud projecting from one extremity thereof, and the other formed from a single piece of material with rolled edges and a reduced extremity, the body of the member with the rolled edges being resilient and having a raised portion at the red uced extremity to provide a depression in one side, and a substantially U-shaped locking-spring held within the reduced extremity of the member With the rolled edges in operative relation to the raised portion and adapted to receive the grooved stud on the other member, the spring having a contracted throat and the material of which the member having the rolled edges is formed being inclined gradually to the maximum projection of the raised portion, the distance between the maximum projection at the open side of the member having the same and the rolled edge being approximately equal to the distance between the groove in the stud and the free end of the latter.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ABA 13. OUSI-IMAN.

Witnesses:

ARETUS A. RowELL, MINA J. A'rWooD. 

